Editorials

Climate change is gender neutral as it affects both men and women. It’s effect on women is evident. For instance, it increases food insecurity and compounds access to water challenges, which roles are the responsibility of rural women. The effective handling of climate change in general and weather information management particularly requires strategies which consider […]

In the WIMEA-ICT project we recognize that the media plays a very important role in informing the general public. We are also cognizant of the fact that if all the useful information we unearth during our research investigations remains inaccessible by the stakeholders, there will hardly be any impact on society. We are therefore taking […]

Are the people of East Africa going to start reaping the benefits of this Weather Information Management project any time soon? Yes, the people of East Africa will start reaping from the WIMEA-ICT soon, particularly through the work of the eight PhD candidates from Makerere University, Dar-es- Salaam Institute of Technology and University of Juba, […]

The idea of improving weather information management in East Africa was born in 2008, following a disappointing farming season. I, like many Ugandans, had grown accustomed to the traditional rainfall patterns which were adhered to by our forefathers. During that season, I planned to grow maize since it was the maize season. Unfortunately for me, […]

The WIMEA-ICT project has been in implementation for about two years now and has registered progress in several areas. Seven PhD students are making headway in their studies and we are leveraging access to interested entities to extend the project’s outreach. It is noteworthy that two prototypes of automatic weather stations have been designed with […]